★ Missed Her

Relationships. Clothes. Food. Haircuts. Little dogs. Cab rides. Sex. All of these things carry heavy meaning in the writing of Ivan E. Coyote. Her specialty, and ultimately her strength, lies in putting the simple, subtle ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Love on the Killing Floor

By Trevor Clark

The unnamed narrator of Trevor Clark’s new novel is a white male in his thirties, adrift in Toronto. A professional photographer, he is separated from his wife and living apart from his young daughter. As ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Death of Donna Whalen

By Michael Winter

Donna Whalen’s black handbag contained $9.78 on the night of her death. The purse sat next to her corpse on the living room floor of her St. John’s apartment, where she lay in a pool ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Superdad: A Memoir of Rebellion, Drugs and Fatherhood

By Christopher Shulgan

In his new memoir, Toronto’s Christopher Shulgan, a magazine writer whose first book, The Soviet Ambassador, was shortlisted for the B.C. National Book Award for Non-fiction, chronicles his descent into crack addiction (with a side ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World

By Doug Saunders

The first book by The Globe and Mail’s European correspondent promises a vivid globetrotting trip to urban neighbourhoods filled with rural migrants, a demographic reality that, Doug Saunders argues persuasively, is shaping the current century. ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Waiting for Joe

By Sandra Birdsell

Before Joe and Laurie Beaudry absconded from their creditors the couple devised a plan. Drive from Winnipeg to Regina in a stolen motor home, then live on the edge of a Walmart parking lot until ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

By John Vaillant

John Vaillant is a literary shaman. The mixture of fact, conjecture, and superstition he concocted for 2005’s The Golden Spruce was pure magic and earned him the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. That same ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar

By Captain Ray Wiss

Captain Ray Wiss is a hero. An emergency-room physician in his late forties, Wiss has twice volunteered to leave his practice and family to participate in four-month rotations on Canadian Forces’ forward operating bases in ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: History

Baking as Biography: A Life Story in Recipes

By Diane Tye

In Baking as Biography, Diane Tye goes through her mother’s recipe box as a means to better understand the older woman’s life, to examine mid-20th-century Maritime food and domestic culture, and to consider connections between ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum

By Jules Lewis

Toronto writer Jules Lewis’s debut novel follows Jim Myers, a quiet teen, as he moves into the insanity that is junior high in Toronto’s west end. Despite, or perhaps because of, his introversion, Jim is ... Read More »

November 4, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

★ Missed Her

Love on the Killing Floor

The Death of Donna Whalen

Superdad: A Memoir of Rebellion, Drugs and Fatherhood

Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World

Waiting for Joe

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

A Line in the Sand: Canadians at War in Kandahar

Baking as Biography: A Life Story in Recipes

Waiting for Ricky Tantrum

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